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“Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.”

Opportunity Lost Business Failing Organization Errors Critical Decline Omission Lost Opportunity

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.”

Ifs World Should Hands Moral Amount Guilt Burden Heavy Chess Obligation Winner Champion Championship Organize Deaf Tournaments Omission Moral Obligation Unforgivable Heavy Burdens

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.”

Ifs Way States Problem Reality Political Certain Courses Term Justice Information Theory News Lays Contrary Officials Reports Incomplete Omission Totalitarian State Sketchy

Author:Konrad Zuse

“I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell

“A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.”

Men Doe Religion Sin Omission

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.”

Ends Whole Regret Confusion Explanation Life And Death Omission

Book:The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

“Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.”

Mean Together Purpose Three Sin Conditions Sorrow Catholic Saint Satisfaction Amendments Confession Good Work Penance Omission Confessing Contrition

Book:The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian

Source: The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian

“Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.”

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

“Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.”

Important Young Lying Causes Sin Answers Moral Bills Embrace Clinton Inspired Popularity Idealism Lapses Omission Monica

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild